Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Add Youtube to My List of Hates

The great breast-feeding debate raged on Tuesday, after YouTube's removal of a breast-feeding video
sparked yet another nursing controversy, according to a mothers'
group.
YouTube is the latest new media site to ban nursing images, following
actions at MySpace and Facebook, according to the League of Maternal Justice.
Bill Maher stoked the breast-feeding fire when he
compared public nursing to masturbation
earlier this year.
The folks at
the League of Maternal Justice weren't totally surprised that YouTube banned the clip, which was viewed at
least 68,000 times before disappearing, but they were upset.
"...I am
surprised that YouTube continues to allow explicit videos of women stripping,
physically hurting themselves, and starving themselves, all of which are easy to
find using simple search terms," League co-founder Kristen Chase said in a
statement on group's website.
I couldn't find the video on YouTube, but I
easily found plenty of other nursing videos, including one entitled Hey
Facebook Suck This
by Motherhood
Uncensored
.
The league asked why YouTube didn't just flag the video as
explicit. YouTube stated is doesn't comment on specific videos, but offered an
explanation.
"It is our community that polices the site and flags content
they find inappropriate. Once it is flagged, YouTube promptly reviews the
content and removes it from the system if it is in violation of our Community
Guidelines," YouTube said in a statement sent to the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
In an attempt to deal with any copyright issues the
League of Maternal Justice is reworking the video and plans to resubmit its new
version to YouTube.
I have no problem with breastfeeding, but I'm no
activist, and I didn't find the video offensive. You can judge for yourself by
watching The
Great Breast Fest Montage
.
A tip of the hat to Suburban Oblivion for flagging this
controversy.

Courtesy of:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/family/archives/126702.asp?source=mypi


"It is our community that polices the site and flags content they find inappropriate. Once it is flagged, YouTube promptly reviews the content and removes it from the system if it is in violation of our Community Guidelines," YouTube said in a statement sent to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Reworded by Karlynn:

"Our community is policed by men with small dicks that think breasts belong in Playboy and to sell B-E-E-R to them. They promptly get all excited when they think its a video montage all about Boobies!! until they realize that those breasts are mammary glands with a purpose. They squeal like the infantile pigs they are and remove the offensive content. After they quickly surf porn to assure themselves that yes, breasts ARE FOR MEN!!! and that yes, THEY STILL ARE MEN!! after viewing that horrible video of breasts being abused, they quickly re-write the Community Guidelines to add breastfeeding as innapropriate.

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